Ankur Desai
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These are gigantic vehicles that have been designed to carry infrastructure because this time NASA plans to stay on the moon, take stuff up there, build things.
Now these landers need refuelling and they'll need to be refuelled in space.
It's hard enough refuelling them on the ground.
The Artemis 2 mission was cancelled twice because they couldn't get the refuelling right.
Just imagine how hard it's going to be in space.
So once they've overcome that problem, then they've got to test the lunar lander.
So an awful lot to do in just two years.
However, one must say that they have achieved a near flawless mission with Artemis II.
Maybe we will see landing on the moon in 2028.
Pallab, it's been an incredible 10 days for the four astronauts involved.
Just talk us through what happens for them.
I guess there'll be some strict and stringent medical tests as well.
And then when are they likely to see their families and friends and loved ones and their colleagues at NASA as well?
They'll feel a bit wobbly on their feet, not because their muscles have gone.
They haven't been in space long enough for that.
But the balance things in the inner ear has not got used to gravity yet.
So they'll be feeling a bit dizzy.
But that'll go in a couple of hours.